“Mixbook is an awesome tool for getting kids interested in writing and producing some incredible interactive written ebooks. You have to check this site out. You will love it!”.”
This site is called a 'Digital Scrapbook' or 'Digital Storytelling" tool. You can enter any text (whole class or individual students) and upload images of any kind - student photography, scanned pictures to tell a story, or even images created on a computer with a drawing tool like Kid Pix). Mixbook then has 'graphics' and 'do-dads' to embellish the page.
Here is an example of a Mixbook created by a 7th Grader:
Mixbook - Digital Scrapbook
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“Mixbook is an awesome tool for getting kids interested in writing and producing some incredible interactive written ebooks. You have to check this site out. You will love it!”.”
This site is called a 'Digital Scrapbook' or 'Digital Storytelling" tool. You can enter any text (whole class or individual students) and upload images of any kind - student photography, scanned pictures to tell a story, or even images created on a computer with a drawing tool like Kid Pix). Mixbook then has 'graphics' and 'do-dads' to embellish the page.
Here is an example of a Mixbook created by a 7th Grader:
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